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His Excellency Archbishop Edwin O'Brien is surely off to Rome very soon as he anticipates the conferral of the pallium on Sunday, the 29th of June, the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul. In his column this week, Thoughts on Our Church , he describes the experience to come . The metropolitan archbishop is entitled to wear the pallium only within the territory of his province. The Pope alone wears it everywhere as a sign of his universal jurisdiction. Incidentally, the pallium worn by Pope Benedict XVI is now different from the pallium he confers on Sunday. His pallium is similar to the ancient, longer and broader style seen in mosaics of the early Church. Gratefully, I am accompanied by more than 100 friends from Baltimore and from among the faithful representing my prior places of ministry. I pray it will be a holy pilgrimage for all who take part. What a graphic reminder of the unity tha

The Catholic News Agency is reporting that the first Mass of the Pauline year beginning June 29th will be ecumenical with Patriarch Bartholomew I participating . Bartholomew I and the Holy Father will deliver the homily, recite the profession of faith and impart the final blessing. The Pontiff will concelebrate with the new Catholic metropolitan archbishops, upon whom he will impose the pallium. Among the 43 archbishops receiving palliums are: Most Rev. Frederick Edwin O'Brien, archbishop of Baltimore ; Most Rev. Thomas John Rhodes, archbishop of Mobile; Most Rev. John Clayton Nienstedt, archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis; Most Rev. Anthony Mancini, archbishop of Halifax, Canada; Most Rev. William Martin Currie, archbishop of Saint John's, Newfoundland, Canada. Read the story here .

George P. Matysek, Jr. of Catholic Review Online has a summary of the upcoming trip to Rome by Archbishop Edwin O'Brien to receive his pallium . Here is a snippet from the article: As Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien prepares to travel to Rome to receive his pallium, he views the occasion not so much as a personal honor, but as a way of celebrating what the Archdiocese of Baltimore represents. Pope Benedict XVI will confer the pallium, a white woolen vestment worn over the chasuble, on Archbishop O’Brien June 29 at St. Peter’s Basilica. In the Latin rite, the pallium symbolizes the office of a metropolitan archbishop. As archbishop of Baltimore, Archbishop O’Brien is the metropolitan of the Province of Baltimore, made up of the Baltimore archdiocese and the suffragan sees of the dioceses of Richmond, Va.; Wilmington, Del.; Wheeling-Charleston, W.Va.; and Arlington, Va. “It will be a great privilege for me to represent the great people of this archdiocese,” said Archbishop O’Brien. “I